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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2), by Sir Leslie Stephen This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies Author: Sir Leslie Stephen Release Date: May 21, 2009 [eBook #28901] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOCIAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES, VOLUME I (OF 2)*** E-text prepared by Thierry Alberto, Henry Craig, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) The Ethical Library SOCIAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES Addresses to Ethical Societies by LESLIE STEPHEN In Two Volumes VOL. I. London Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Limited New York: MacMillan & Co. 1896 NOTE. The following chapters are chiefly a republication of addresses delivered to the Ethical Societies of London. Some have previously appeared in the _International Journal of Ethics_, the _National Review_, and the _Contemporary Review_. The author has to thank the proprietors of these periodicals for their consent to the republication. L. S. CONTENTS. PAGE THE AIMS OF ETHICAL SOCIETIES, 1 SCIENCE AND POLITICS, 45 THE SPHERE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 91 THE MORALITY OF COMPETITION, 133 SOCIAL EQUALITY, 175 ETHICS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE, 221 THE AIMS OF ETHICAL SOCIETIES.[1] I am about to say a few words upon the aims of this society: and I should be sorry either to exaggerate or to depreciate our legitimate pretensions. It would be altogether impossible to speak too strongly of the importance of the great questions in which our membership of the society shows us to be interested. It would, I fear, be easy enough to make an over-estimate of the part which we can expect to play in their solution. I hold indeed, or I should not be here, that we may be of some service at any rate to each other. I think that anything which stimul
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